Postman takes an enlightening look at the long-term effects of mass media--how it transforms the world, and the ways in which the media onslaught can be challenged. -Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World.
This is an indictment that Postman has laid down and, so far as I can see, an irrefutable one.
A brilliant, powerful, and important book.
It is also a blueprint for regaining control of our media, so that they can serve our highest goals.
Amusing Ourselves to Death is a prophetic look at what happens when politics, journalism, education, and even religion become subject to the demands of entertainment.
Now, with television joined by more sophisticated electronic media--from the Internet to cell phones to DVDs--it has taken on even greater significance. - CNN Originally published in 1985, Neil Postman\'s groundbreaking polemic about the corrosive effects of television on our politics and Public Discourse has been hailed as a twenty-first-century book published in the twentieth century.
It\'s unlikely that Trump has ever read Amusing Ourselves to Death , but his ascent would not have surprised Postman.
What happens when media and politics become forms of entertainment? As our world begins to look more and more like Orwell\'s 1984 , Neil\'s Postman\'s essential guide to the modern media is more relevant than ever.
Postman takes an enlightening look at the long-term effects of mass media--how it transforms the world, and the ways in which the media onslaught can be challenged
